Reporter Tom Llamas has been named anchor of a new 5 pm newscast to debut on September 12 on WNBC. He’ll be sharing the anchor desk with Shiba Russell, who is currently anchoring weekends.
Tom has been a general assignment reporter for NBC’s O&O in New York since 2009, occasionally doing some anchor fill-in duties.
As part of the promotion, he’ll also become an NBC News correspondent.
Prior to joining WNBC, Tom was a reporter at WTVJ-6, the NBC station in Miami, where he spent 4 years. He previously worked for MSNBC as a political campaign reporter. He started his career working with the NBC News Specials Unit during the 2000 presidential election.